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Littérature britannique et irlandaise
19e siècle
- Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Northanger Abbey, Sense and Sensibility
- Walter Scott, Ivanhoe, The Tales of My Landlord
- Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
- Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
- Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
- Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities
- Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd, Tess of the D’Ubervilles
- William Makepeace Thakeray, Vanity Fair
- George Elliot, The Mill on the Floss
- Oscar Wilde, The Portrait of Dorian Gray
- Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- Bram Stoker, Dracula
- Joseph Conrad, The Heart of Darkness
20e siècle
- E.M. Forster, A Room with a View, Howard’s End, A Passage to India
- Virginia Woolf, Night and Day, Mrs. Dalloway, The Waves
- James Joyce, Dubliners, The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- Rudyard Kipling, Kim
- Ford Madox Ford, The Good Soldier
- D.H Lawrence, Women in Love
- Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth, The Age of Innocence, The Custom of the Country
- Evelyn Waugh, A Handful of Dust
- Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory, The Confidential Agent, The Heart of the Matter
- George Orwell, Nineteen-Eighty-Four, Animal Farm, Coming up for Air
- Graham Swift, WaterlandIan McEwan, Atonement
- Joseph O’Connor, Star of the Sea
- Colm Toibin, The Heather Blazing, Brooklyn
- Kazuo Ishiguro, An Artist of the Floating World, The Remains of the Day, The Buried Giant
- Jonathan Coe, Number Eleven
Littérature américaine
19e siècle
- Washington Irving, The Legend of the Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle
- Nathaniel Hawthorn, The Scarlet Letter, Young Goodman Brown, The Minister’s Black Veil
- Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
- James Fennimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans
- Mark Twain, TheAdventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener, Moby Dick
- Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
- Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage
- Henry David Thoreau, Walden
- Lydia Maria Child, Hobomok, A Tale of Early Times
20e siècle
- Jack London, White Fang, The Call of the Wild, To build a Fire, The Iron Heel
- Sinclair Lewis, Babbit, It can’t happen here
- Upton Sinclair, Oil!, The Jungle
- Ernest Hemingway, Fiesta : the Sun also rises, A Farewell to Arms, The Old Man and the Sea
- Francis Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
- John Dos Passos, Manhattan Transfer
- William Faulkner, As I lay dying, The Sound and the Fury
- John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men
- Theorore Dreiser, Sister Carrie
- William Styron, Sophie’s Choice
- Philip Roth, American Pastoral
- Toni Morrison, Beloved
- Paul Auster, A New York Trilogy, Moon Palace